(n.) An instrument for viewing or examining the interior of the stomach.
Example Sentences:
(1) Flow cytometric DNA analysis was performed on both fresh and on paraffin embedded samples obtained by gastroscopic biopsies in 5 patients with histologically normal gastric mucosa (20 specimens) and by radical gastrectomies in 9 cases of human gastric cancer (36 specimens).
(2) The gastroscopic evaluation of the acute type may be extremely difficult, especially after gastric resection, the survey being very poor.
(3) During diagnostic endoscopy the gastroscope unexpectedly passed to the transverse colon through a relatively large ulcerous gastrocolic fistula.
(4) Provided that the intussuscepted segment appears viable it seems justified to aim initially to reduce jejuno-gastric intussusception with the aid of the gastroscope.
(5) The diagnostic accuracy of the method was evaluated at gastroscopic control.
(6) The gastroscopic reports of a period of 5 years were evaluated.
(7) In an earlier publication, the intestinal placement of Miller-Abbott-tubes using routine gastroscopic equipment was proposed for the conservative treatment of intestinal obstruction.
(8) Not until the efficient gastroscopic instruments based on fiber optics and with extremely flexible points as well as advance view optical systems were developed large-scale, introduction esophageal gastro-bulboscopy in hospitals and in offices of specialists became possible.
(9) The bubble is visualized through a gastroscope and deflated using bicap cautery.
(10) The authors discovered 312 cases of intestinal metaplasia in 4 920 patients who had been gastroscoped in the Digestive Endoscopy Center of François-Moutier.
(11) Intraoperative transesophageal 2-dimensional and Doppler evaluation, and, in selected patients, echo-contrast and color flow imaging, were performed with either a 3.5- or 5.0-MHz phased array probe mounted within the tip of a flexible gastroscope.
(12) Platinum electrodes were lengthened and modified to permit passage through the instrument channel of a standard gastroscope.
(13) During a two-year period at Warwick Hospital 53 patients have undergone flexible fibreoptic endoscopy using a gastroscope, with visualization of the pharynx, larynx and upper G.I.
(14) The premalignant process in the gastric mucosa was studied by gastroscopic surveys of Colombian populations, and the prevalence of superficial gastritis, chronic atrophic gastritis, and intestinal metaplasia was calculated for population samples having a very high gastric cancer risk (Nariño), very low risk (Cartagena), and intermediate risk (Cali).
(15) Gastroscopic biopsy studies on 284 first degree relatives of San Marinese gastric cancer patients in the Republic of San Marino and in Detroit, where 2,000-2,500 San Marinese reside, have allowed detection of six gastric malignancies.
(16) A case is reported of cytomegalovirus (CMV) infection with radiological, gastroscopic and histological appearances which led to a mistaken diagnosis of carcinoma of the stomach.
(17) Careful gastroscopic follow up with biopsy is recommended for all patients with multiple gastric polyps.
(18) The correct diagnosis was made radiologically in 60%, gastroscopically in 70%.
(19) The relationship between atrophic gastritis and stomach cancer risk was investigated in case-control analyses involving 387 cases with stomach cancer and 5,422 control subjects who received gastroscopic examination at Aichi Cancer Center Hospital from April, 1985 to March, 1989.
(20) One hundred and eighteen additional patients underwent two or more screening gastroscopic studies between July 1980 and July 1985.
Gastroscopy
Definition:
(n.) Examination of the abdomen or stomach, as with the gastroscope.
Example Sentences:
(1) In a retrospective study of 610 patients the role of routine gastroscopy prior to cholecystectomy was investigated.
(2) The emptiness of the stomach was verified by gastroscopy.
(3) Conventional fiberoptic gastroscopy could be performed simultaneously with sonoendoscopic evaluation of the esophagus and gastric, extraesophageal, and extragastric areas.
(4) It can cause massive bleeding and is often missed at initial gastroscopy.
(5) Antral biopsies were obtained to detect Campylobacter pylori infection in 382 patients referred for gastroscopy.
(6) These states are not always going parallel with the macroscopic pictures revealed by gastroscopy, but there are some obvious congruences.
(7) Patients were submitted to gastroscopy at the start and end of treatment; only patients who presented a normal baseline gastroscopy were admitted to the trial.
(8) The findings from gastroscopy, upper gastrointestinal series and computed tomography were evaluated for their ability to define the anatomic site of the lesion, proximal and distal extent of gastric involvement, presence of a mass or ulceration and the sensitivity of diagnosis.
(9) Gastroscopy did not appear to increase plasma enzyme concentrations in six patients who were given intravenous premedication.
(10) In a series of five placebo-controlled double-blind studies in situations of stress-induced anxiety (gastroscopy, minor surgery, cardiac catheterization), the therapeutic efficacy of alpidem was evident in 53% of the patients and significantly (P less than 0.001) superior to that of placebo (30%).
(11) In order to exemplify the use of effect measures and confidence intervals in epidemiology, it is assumed that a group of patients treated with antiflogistic drugs were compared by repeated gastroscopy with a control group.
(12) First gastroscopy was done and biopsies were taken.
(13) 69% of the women and 48% of the men had previously experienced gastroscopy or colonoscopy.
(14) An esophago-gastroscopy showed a second degree burn of both esophagus and stomach.
(15) We recently treated a 19-year-old man in the ED and in the departments of surgery and medicine who required a gastrotomy to remove a large amount of elemental iron inaccessible to removal by emesis, lavage, or gastroscopy.
(16) The distribution over time of biopsy specimens in this case series showed an increased use of gastroscopy for diagnosis in the population under study.
(17) Following gastroscopy, gastric juice was collected, and total gastric acidity was measured.
(18) At the start, 6 weeks following the start 6 and 12 months after the finishing of the treatment gastroscopy was performed.
(19) Small-intestinal biopsy specimens were examined for deposits of amyloid, and the presence of gastric retention was evaluated by gastroscopy.
(20) At the examination seven complications were registered in the gastroscopy record.